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{{Warning}}[[File:Terf.jpg|thumb|220x220px|The TERF "pride flag
[[File:Radfem flag.png|thumb|Radfem-specific flag]]
'''Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists''' ('''TERFs
TERFs often prey on young, uneducated gay people (particularly [[
While an autonomous group, TERFs are part of the greater reactionary movement of so-called<ref>[https://medium.com/@transphilosophr/how-to-be-a-gender-critical-feminist-fdf6705c234a Medium post questioning the "critical" in TERFs gender-critical ideology.]</ref> gender-criticals.<ref>[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2158244020927029 Scholarly article "Philosophical Problems With the Gender-Critical Feminist Argument Against Trans Inclusion" by Aleardo Zanghellini for ''SAGE Open''.]</ref>
== TERF Ideology ==
=== Transphobia ===
TERFs' main doctrine is that trans people do not exist. They believe that trans women are actually men who are trying to invade women's spaces
=== Obsession with "Biology" ===
Similarly they sometimes use the word "womyn". This alternate spelling was originally meant as a way to avoid the suffix 'man'. However it was adopted by TERFs to mean cis women. TERFs also use the womyn-born-womyn (WBW) to mean "women raised as women", to exclude anyone [[AMAB|assigned male at birth]].
=== Prejudice Against
TERFs believe that all men are inherently oppressive and cannot change this due to the way they enforce the patriarchy. Trans women, and anyone assigned male at birth are included in this outdated definition of "men
=== Views on Transmasculine People ===
As with many conversations on trans people, [[transmasculine]] people, such as
It's worth mentioning that FTM TERFs exist, as well as FTMTF de-transitioners. The detransitioners often feel that they were allowed to transition too easily, and that medical professionals didn't bother digging deeply into the origins of their dysphoria and just presented transition as the only solution. Many of them have trauma related to being AFAB and hadn't realized at first that they wanted to transition to escape that. So they see young FTM individuals and mistakenly see themselves in them, and don't want them to make the same mistake they did. Many support transition as a last resort and simply want dysphoric AFAB individuals to look into other options first.
=== Biphobia ===
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TERF ideology often includes being against kinky sex, believing that dom/sub interactions, even between two women, mirror the oppressive relationship between men and women. Therefore TERF ideology asserted that the only "pure" form of sex is vanilla sex between two (strictly lesbian) cis women.
Many TERFs are also sex-worker exclusionary radical feminists
They're also against porn for many reasons, such as normalizing violence against women and the women in the videos being abused on the job. Many TERFs are sex workers or former sex workers who speak out against the industry and talk about the abuse they faced within it.
=== Dislike of the Word TERF ===
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== Flag ==
The TERF
The radfem-specific flag was designed by Tumblr user goddess-wombynhood on or before July 11, 2020.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20230708185958/https://yourfaveisaradicalfeminist.tumblr.com/post/660434665740632064/alright-so-i-was-inspired-by-the-flag-designed-by Radfem-specific flag reblog (archived)]</ref>
Sometimes, the labrys lesbian flag is used representing radical feminism, but the labrys flag is a lesbian feminism symbol.
==References==
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